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Richard Craig Shelby (born May 6, 1934) is an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Alabama from 1987 to 2023. First elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986 as a Democrat who later switched to the Republican Party in 1994, he chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee from 2018 to 2021.
- Republican (after 1994)
Nov 28, 2022 · Alabama's Richard Shelby is retiring after the longest tenure of any senator from Alabama in Washington, D.C., and the senator plans to head home to a quiet retirement in Tuscaloosa.
Dec 24, 2022 · In 1992, running as a conservative Democrat not aligned with his party’s presidential nominee, Richard C. Shelby cruised to victory with 65 percent of Alabama’s vote.
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Nov 28, 2022 · U.S. Senator Richard Shelby, a Republican from Tuscaloosa, is retiring from the U.S. Senate when the 118th Congress is sworn into office on Jan. 3. Shelby, 88, was recently asked how Alabamians...
Dec 26, 2022 · Senator Richard C. Shelby made the most of his perch on the committee that controls federal spending. Now he’s leaving Congress, where his way of doing business is a fading art.
Richard Shelby (born May 6, 1934, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.) American politician who was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 1986 and represented Alabama from 1987 to 2023; in 1994 he joined the Republican Party. He previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1979–87).
Dec 19, 2022 · Richard Shelby, Susan Collins, The veteran appropriator, days from retirement, is becoming the GOP face of a $1.7 trillion deal he helped ink. And he's fine with the blowback from conservatives.
